Franklin

Questions abound in eastern Pennsylvania as a 31-year-old woman faces charges that she fatally stabbed her fiance during an argument inside their apartment just eight hours before the wedding.

Na Cola Franklin has a preliminary hearing on Friday, on what would have been her fiance’s 37th birthday.

Franklin and Billy Brewster, a truck driver, were supposed to be married at 10 a.m. Saturday. Instead, police were called to their second-floor apartment outside Allentown at 2:19 a.m. and found the mortally wounded groom. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Brewster’s mother, Barbara Obas, didn’t even know he had been killed when she arrived at their apartment for the wedding.

“We came for a wedding, and we’re burying Billy on Thursday morning” she said Monday.

The motive remained unclear.

A witness, Monique Kali, told authorities that Franklin and Brewster were about to head out to get some food when they began arguing, according to a police affidavit. Franklin began swinging a knife and stabbed Brewster twice in the left side of his chest, puncturing his heart, authorities said.